Same small room, with still lingering smell of vomit.

Three people were sitting in, with serious expressions.

“Uncle Bai, first spray some more perfume. Remove the spell.”

“Damn, Zi Ming, can you listen to me first – you started vomiting. Now, see the smell’s nauseating.”

“Zi Yang, you asked me to eat vomit. Won’t I vomit?”

The brothers were having at it again.

“Okay, Zi Yang, Zi Ming. Stop first. Zi Ming, don’t keep saying vomit again. Let’s replace it with…” Bai stopped the quarreling.

“air”, Zi Yang offered.

Baize narrowed his eyes.

Purple air – it sounds noble. Air could also mean qi – Baize’s doubts were becoming intense as time went by.

“Alright”, Zi Ming agreed and calmed down.

Finally, Zi Yang explained patiently, “Ming’er, that purple air improved your body more than some precious resources. Even if it looks like vomit, it is incomparably precious.”

Zi Ming still quibbled, “but it’s still vomit.”

Zi Yang was exasperated. There is absolutely no winning against babies – “Okay, how will you agree to take all that purple air into your body?”

“You mean eat all the purple vomit.”

Wow. The child is stubborn.

Zi Yang was gritting his teeth now. “Yes”

Zi Ming also came to senses seeing that his brother was probably getting angry now.

“I will agree if you grant me a wish.”

Zi Yang’s heart melted again.

Aww. A wish. But he didn’t budge.

“Conditional. It can’t be against your health. You can’t miss yoga or running.”

Zi Ming showed a disappointed expression but quickly perked up and showed a cunning smile, “Okay. Everything else is good. One wish for one eating.”

Zi Yang paused when he saw the cunning smile. Then he smiled sweetly as well and continued,

“Yes, all good. But one wish for 10 times”

“No, one wish for 2 times”

“No, one wish for 11 times”

Zi Ming’s little head was confused for a moment. He has seen his brother bargain. It goes high from one said and low on one side. His eyes widened.

“Zi Yang, you’re doing it wrong. You should say 9 times now.”

“Yeah, why?”, Zi Yang asked.

Zi Ming asked himself: yes, why? So, he will only get it after eleven times eating vomit and if Zi Yang increases again. No… no… no… Zi Ming felt this was not good so he pulled the big guns and bawled his eyes out.

As expected by Zi Ming, Zi Yang quickly consoled and said, “Okay one time for one wish but I also one more condition. You should white clothes from now on when you go and only if the whole white cloth is black after eating vomit will you get the wish. Deal?”

Zi Ming also knew his clothes became black from vomit and even his face was black. This condition doesn’t matter.

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He will become black after the vomit anyway, so he happily agreed.

Both brothers had a smile of successful conspiracy and they smiled each other like little foxes.

Scanned and confirmed.

Both of them are brothers. Baize saw as the brother argued over eating vomit to negotiating how much will be paid for it.

Then cheated each other over it.

They really are the most bizarre pair of brothers.

“Okay, let's go out. Before that, Zi Ming and Uncle Bai – no one will talk about his purple air outside with anyone. Don’t talk. Don’t talk. Don’t talk. Remember important things are said thrice.”

Zi Ming became serious once again. He quickly nodded. He did not the reason on why not to talk, but as long his brother says, he will do it.

Don’t talk about purple air. He got it.

But Baize hesitated.

Zi Yang sighed. Sure enough – adults are complicated and are more curious about everyone’s business. But he trusted Uncle Bai enough in these two years to tell this to him.

He waved to Zi Ming and said, “Zi Ming, you go ahead and play with Yi Hai and Bai Lian in the center.”

But Zi Ming had a new doubt, how could he leave?

He asked, “Zi Yang, why feed my resources to him? He will vomit after eating Aunt Jing’s food too.”

Baize was also confused.

Zi Yang’s creed was that if he could get something for free unintentionally, he would take it. Why the extra effort now?

Seeing Zi Ming ask again, Zi Yang replied solemnly once again – “remember, you can’t take the air he vomits after eating Aunt Jing’s food. Only yours! Remember carefully. Or, rather, Uncle Bai, you accompany him to Aunt Jing’s house from now on, and pay attention to this.”

Seeing that nothing was left for him to do, Zi Ming hopped away.

After Zi Ming left, Zi Yang said without needing Baize to start, “Uncle Bai, I can tell you what I know but you have to ensure that you can’t tell anyone about this. You need to sign on it.”

“That Serious?”

Baize was surprised again.

He didn’t expect Zi Yang would ask him to sign on it.

Zi Yang had never hidden his secrets from him – be it the two beast eggs his mother froze or his money accounts, even his void net password would be often used by him to order goods for the center.

“Yes, that serious.”

Baize also acted immediately and bought the highest-level void contract. He entered the details that he would not reveal the details discussed today to any one, signed and passed it onto Zi Yang.

Zi Yang also signed.

The contract them burned and disappeared in the void while both of them felt a binding force.

Zi Yang dropped a bombshell, “That purple vomit is most likely merit.”

But to Baize’s ear, it did not make any sense. He did not know what merit was.

Seeing that Uncle Bai did not make any expression but still listening – it could only mean that either Uncle knows about it or he is clueless about merit.

He asked Uncle Bai, “don’t you know merit?”

Uncle Bai showed a confused expression and said, “young master, what is merit? Like rewards given in jobs for job well done?”

Baize was not pretending. He was genuinely confused.

Zi Yang thought Uncle Bai was confused about generalization, so said again, “Heavenly merit”

But Baize shook his head again.

Confirming that Uncle Bai genuinely did not know, he became even more serious. He guessed that people in this world might not know about merit.

Because merit is such a thing that even if people have never seen it with their own eyes, if it exists in a world, even common people would at least know stories about big men getting it, hence what the word means.

But the arrow has been cast and there was no harm in telling him so he continued in a solemn note and convincingly thought of an excuse already.

“Uncle Bai, you should more ancient books…”

Baize’s mouth twitched.

He had been observing Zi Yang closely for enough time now. How could he not know he was beginning to make up a source for his knowledge?

It happened every time he told a story to Zi Ming.

An ancient book. Read more.

A street paddler. Listen more.

A vintage movie. Observe more.

He’s heard all these lessons Zi Yang gave to Zi Ming.

But none of his searches found any source – whatsoever.

He suspected and so did the empress that Zi Yang might be the reincarnation of some big man from another world.

It had happened often that some beast masters’ space evolves into their own worlds and breed different races.

There have been many cases recorded aboriginals from a center affiliated world reincarnated using some means to become a human on the main planet for further progress.

Zi Yang sighed and told the details based on his knowledge from online novels.

“In the ancient book, it is said that when heaven and earth were formed, their origin was still growing and still far from perfection.

It would usually take an unusually long time for it to be perfect on its own or it may never become perfect at all.

But as the earliest creatures grew on earth were beasts, some of them were mindless so they would destroy mountains, rivers etc. where ever they went.

Heaven was so pissed.

These beasts were delaying their perfection. They were harming it.

But they couldn’t do anything to the beasts directly after all. They could do it indirectly though.

So, when there were fights and someone killed a mindless destroying beast, heaven and earth converted a strand of origin and bestowed that as a reward to that person.

After use, that person discovered his cultivation increased. So, he killed more and gained a lot of these purple substance type air from the sky.

He found that this substance can be used for increasing cultivation, strengthening body, increasing luck, and for anything possible.

At a sufficient level, he senses heaven’s intention and knew what it was.

It would come whenever someone helped heaven and earth progress and move closer to perfection.

This was a reward from heaven. So the man called it heavenly merit.”